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The East Central University Wind Ensemble, along with the Dale High School Concert Band, will be performing a free concert on Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ataloa Theatre of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

Everyone is welcome to view and listen to the sounds of the two groups as they perform their Pre-OkMEA (Oklahoma Music Educators Association) Concert. The ECU Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Allen Correll, will be performing at the OkMEA Conference at Assembly Hall of the Cox Business Center in Tulsa on Thursday, Jan. 18, at 7:15 p.m.

Take a journey and experience a vast array of Broadway shows as East Central University hosts Broadway Tonite Live! set for Friday, Jan. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ataloa Theatre of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

Broadway Tonite Live! is a highly-paced musical revue with a cast of four attractive, multi-talented Broadway performers, with numerous Broadway credits.

East Central University classes for the 2018 spring semester are scheduled to begin on Tuesday, Jan. 16 and enrollment is still open by appointment or online.

First-time transfer students, first-time beginning freshmen and all concurrent students who have cleared the admission process, may call ECU’s Academic Success Center at 580-559-5696 to make an appointment for academic advisement and enrollment.

Amy T. (Garcia) Ford, a 1996 East Central University alum who has spent the almost 11 years as ECU’s assistant vice president and director of communications and marketing, has been called upon to restore ECU’s Office of Institutional Advancement.

The East Central University campus and offices will be closed for the holidays from Monday, Dec. 18 through Monday, Jan. 1, 2018. Campus offices will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 2, at 8 a.m. Classes resume at ECU on Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 8 a.m. ECU’s Linscheid Library will be closed from Saturday, Dec. 16-Monday, Jan. 1, 2018. The library will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 2, at 8 a.m. The Tommy Hewett Wellness Center will be open Monday-Friday, outside of Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, from 8 a.m.-noon and 3 p.m.-7 p.m. each day, Monday through Friday. It will not be open on weekends.

Sarah Garcia, secretary to the dean in East Central University’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, is the recipient of the Saundra Mace Award from the Oklahoma Political Science Association.

Garcia, who has worked at ECU for more than 30 years and is a graduate of the university, recently accepted the award at the OPSA’s Awards Banquet at the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur

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